Predictive policing has been a bust. The Department of Justice nurtured the technology from researchers’ minds to corporate production lines and into the hands of police departments.

The explosion of generative AI tools like ChatGPT and fears about where the technology might be headed distract from the many ways AI affects people every day – for better and worse.

Safer infrastructure could help prevent catastrophic destruction like that in the Syrian and Turkey earthquakes, argues Rachel Abercrombie.

Astrology and astronomy were once practiced side by side by scientists like Galileo and Kepler. And they’re more similar than you might think.

Buying and selling stocks – with real or play money – is a way to harness the wisdom of the crowd about questions like who is going to win a competition.

Will artificial intelligence someday rule the world? Will we tremble before our robot overlords? Not a chance, say the author of a new book.

A new model can predict human flocking behavior based on optics and other sensory data, report researchers.

"Our results show the state of the climate in general has implications for how many days out you can say something that's accurate about the weather."